Pocket SCORM

Author

Lin, Nigel H. ; Shih, Timothy K. ; Hsu, Hui-huang ; Chang, Hsuan-Pu ; Chang, Han-Bin ; Ko, Wen Chieh ; Lin, L.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Tamsui, Taiwan

fYear

2004

fDate

23-24 March 2004

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

279

Abstract

With advanced technologies, computer devices have become smaller in size but still with powerful computing ability. As a result, there are growing amount of people start to take distance education courses not only by using their PCs but also using mobile devices such as pocket PCs. Because pocket PCs are easy to carry, these devices are considered as a proper platform for distance education. We focus on the issues of transferring the current PC based sharable content object reference model (SCORM) to pocket PC based. We also introduce the prototype version of pocket SCORM run-time environment (RTE) which has been developed in our lab. Proposed pocket SCORM architecture is able to operate, even when the mobile device is physically disconnected from the network, without losing any students´ learning record. Collected records are then be sent back to learning management system (LMS), runs at the sever side, after the device is back on on-line.

Keywords

Internet; courseware; distance learning; mobile computing; notebook computers; records management; computer device; distance education course; learning management system; mobile device; pocket PC; pocket SCORM run-time environment; sharable content object reference model; student learning record; Computer industry; Computer science education; Courseware; Distance learning; Industrial training; Least squares approximation; Personal communication networks; Portable computers; Power engineering computing; Power engineering education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284043

Filename

1284043